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The Paradise Papers – Tax Evasion by The World’s “Elite” and a Payments System that buys “Decisions”
Recently, a leak of 13.4 million documents showed the scale of an offshore empire that involved a large number of the “rich and famous” that includes everyone from the Queen to Facebook. The leak has been titled “The Paradise Papers” and manifests as a special investigation by 96 media partners worldwide, (and includes Australia’s Four…
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A Glimpse of the Future – The King Review Interim Report Nightmare
That the King Review is a front for something more sinister would be obvious to most pharmacists and the industry at large. That it purports to be a review towards a positive future for community pharmacy is an insult to anyone’s intelligence. i2P has already made the case for what the real agenda for Australian…
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Ten forms of fake news used by major media
The term “fake news” is receiving more prominence of late, possibly because of the aggressive stance taken by US president, Donald Trump in denouncing it via his Twitter account – his chosen method of releasing information to the general public, rather than brief mainstream media (MSM). However health news has been acquiring an increasing content level…
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The King Review – WHAT LIES BENEATH!
The King Review panel has currently reached an interim report stage that discloses a range of options which form up into four major groupings – cosmetic positive, cosmetic negative, industry alternatives and future government policy direction (documented and undocumented). Overlaps occur between these groupings and perspectives will obviously vary depending on their interest segment. My…
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How contaminated is Australia’s Health Gateway?
Given the reports that flow in regularly from around the world, have you ever wondered how contaminated Australia’s health gateway is as a reality? While Australia has regulations that make payments to doctors from Global Pharma’s a mandatory requirement, does anyone have any real trust in what is actually disclosed? And as we go through the…
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The King and I – Shall we Dance?
Speculation is growing that the King Review – a review of future pharmacy options for the federal government – has been asked to consider two additional options: * Open ownership including supermarkets and foreign operators. * A government-owned franchise model involving full nationalisation of the pharmacy sector. The reasons given for the investigation of these…
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The Pauline Hanson Echo Chamber and the Manufacturing of Consent in Science
Pauline Hanson recently ignited an echo chamber of media opinion, (major outrage building on previous outrage of reporters covering other reporters covering other reporters’ outrage), because she expressed a view on the ABC’s Insider Program that: “parents needed to make an ‘informed’ decision about whether or not to vaccinate their children”. “What I don’t like…
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The “Bent Spoon” award developed by people with bent thinking
Skeptics Australia, is an organisation noted for its biased opinions and its campaigning against a range of health groups. Originally it was set up to debunk paranormal issues but its agenda seems to have been hijacked by people reflecting the vested interests of global corporates, in particular, those of Big Pharma. I have commented in…
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Patient Navigation – An old-new Opportunity for Pharmacists
i2P has commented before that community pharmacy has (and still is) the epicentre for primary health care. In many ways it was the original patient-centred home and it had a market share approaching 70 percent in the mid to late 1970’s when it was first surveyed. The entry point to primary health care within community…
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Medical Maijuana – will Australian Community Pharmacies consider the legislation of Uruguay?
Ministers in the South American country Uruguay have voted in support of a new law, known as 19.172 and enacted in December 2013, to permit marijuana to be sold for non-medicinal use. They also accepted the offer by Uruguay’s community pharmacy owners to sell the drug through their outlets. The community pharmacy owners argue that community pharmacies…